DocumentalityThis books ushers in a new way of talking about social phenomena. It develops an ontology of social objects on the basis of the claim that registration or inscriptionthe leaving of a trace to be called up lateris what is most fundamental to them. In doing so, it systematically organizes concepts and theories that Ferrariss predecessorsmost notably Derrida, in his project of a positive grammatologyleft in an impressionistic state. Ferraris begins by